Almodovar said: Women let him find comedy subjects, men only produce tragedy. Like his other films, what drives the plot of "Beautiful Colors" is masculinity, mastery, suspicion, selfishness, and intrigue.
The background of the film is set as the end of the era of Francisco Franco. The characters of the film are like miniatures of various social roles, and their personalities promote the development of the plot and finally merge with the ending of the era.
Sancho is an old-fashioned representative, he doesn't accept it: he can't see the diverse and lively scene on the street, he regards energetic young people as scumbags, and decides that they are the targets of his wife's cheating; Resolute not to get divorced; he doesn't get the point: thinks he's doing something to save his passion: quit drinking; he's stereotyped: judges Clara's manly posture on the couch watching TV, illogical. Faced with the accusation that victor was wrongfully imprisoned for 6 years for him, he said: "No one really owns his youth and the woman he loves." This stubborn "sense of loss of control" and the victim's psychology brought Sancho precisely the The desire to control his wife and the deprivation of the next generation, he has never experienced the generation that really has, so naturally he can't give it.
Victor means victory. He is pure, healthy and strong, with firm belief, full of energy and vitality. He has a clear goal to ask Clara, who is ready to lose hope in life under the torture of Sancho, to ask for sex education, let Clara Fell in love with him in class 11. Young people will never lose because they are the judges of the future world.
David, who got married to his colleague's wife Clara, and was distracted by a beautiful hostage during law enforcement and accidentally injured by a "criminal victor", is the most liberal. He is rational, positive and optimistic. Disabled basketball for secondary employment, Jordan baseball caps, NBA mascot shirts, posters for champion, and postcards from Miami at the end of the credits, these very American symbols are interwoven with Almodóvar's flamenco soundtrack Dialogue with Spanish: The source of external vitality is one of the ways out in turbulent times.
Elina is a confused young man in chaotic times, and a representative of the common people. She is drug-addicted, impulsive, and "obnoxiously honest." She has found her own way and runs a non-profit organization to take care of children with AIDS. She just wants to be serious life, finally and just as simply victor has children, believing they will live happily in Spain where "people are not as scared as they used to be".
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